Hugh Grant joins Guy Ritchie's Toff Guys

Hugh Grant

Actor Hugh Grant has boarded the cast of filmmaker Guy Ritchie's next, Toff Guys. The 58-year-old actor, who most recently featured in BBC One series A Very English Scandal, joins Matthew McConaughey, Henry Golding and Kate Beckinsale in the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The film, set around the modern marijuana industry, follows a British drug lord attempting to cash out on his highly profitable empire by selling it off to a dynasty of Oklahoma billionaires. Grant will be playing a British tabloid reporter. Ritchie, who is currently directing the upcoming live-action take on "Aladdin", has penned the script along with Marn Davies and Ivan Atkinson.

The film is set to start shooting later this year in the England.

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